Rare earth carbonate concentrate (rare earth element mine operation and beneficiation - ion adsorption clays)

The activity generating the emissions is rare earth element mine operation and beneficiation, ion adsorption clays. The reference product is rare earth carbonate concentrate. Rare earth carbonate concentrate is a metal. It includes 15 individual rare earth oxides (REOs). Cerium, europium, neodymium, samarium, gadolinium and praseodymium are Light Rare Earth Elements (LREE) while lanthanum, ytterbium, yttrium, dysprosium, erbium, holmium, lutetium, terbium and thulium oxide are Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREE). It is the direct product from mining and beneficiation. It is in a form of powder. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: phosphors , ceramics, metal alloys, batteries, catalysts for petroleum refining, autocatalysts, chemical catalyst, glass polishing, metal alloys, yellow ceramic pigment, autocat, high power magnets, high temperature magnets, fluorescent lighting, magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent, nuclear reactor rods, phosphors for lighting, lasers, highest power magnets in existence, ceramic magnetic materials which are still under development, fibre optic technology, solar panels, and PET scanners. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/22421/documentation.